Destroy Your Art

Founded 2017

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Destroy Your Art was born out of a desire to explore the permanence of film as well as the impermanence of the audience experience. You can watch a film again and again, but your experience seeing it for the first time or with a particular audience cannot be kept. Destroy Your Art challenges our current obsessions with moments - Snapchat, Instagram stories - and invites an audience to witness something more intentional, and in a singularly unrepeatable event. Destroy Your Art gives the artists permission to take risks that they might not otherwise take. What story will you tell when you know it will disappear?

Friday, August 25, 2017 Chicago filmmakers Nick Alonzo, Shayna Connelly, Lonnie Edwards, Matt Hyland and Aemilia Scott presented never before seen original short films and then destroyed them - in their entirety - at Lost Arts in front of the only audience to ever see them.

Destroy Your Art was co-created by Rebecca Fons and Jack C. Newell and can be found on Instagram and Facebook.